Tag Archives: Information technology

May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

New Zealand Defies International Pressure and Makes Software Non-Patentable

By Ben Kepes

I’m immensely proud to be a New Zealand. Despite being a tiny country at the end of the earth we have historically shown the fortitude to make the big calls before others were willing to do so. The first country in the world to offer women the vote and the

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April 22, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

By Ben Kepes

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud that would previously have been almost impossible. It’s always nice to

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April 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the Cloudability blog… I spend my life doing a bunch of different things – but whether I’m investing, commentating on the technology industry, advising a startup or consulting to a large vendor, there are some common threads at play. My core thesis is that technology in general,

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February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

By Ben Kepes

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off with Paul Muller explaining what he does in terms of looking

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January 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

By Ben Kepes

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in

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January 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

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December 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part I – Infrastructure & Operational Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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November 1, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between

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October 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

GreenQloud and Xeround Launch Cloud Database on 100% Renewable Energy

By Ben Kepes

A year or two ago a minor storm circled around the cloud community after a report was published questioning the environmental impacts of cloud computing. The report was pretty flawed – it omitted to take into account the generally lower per-unit impact of cloud as opposed to traditional IT, but

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October 4, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Upcoming Event – The Cloud – IT evolution or business revolution?

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be in Auckland as a guest of Provoke. They’ve asked me to come up and take part in a session entitled “The Cloud – IT Evolution or Business Revolution”. It’s a topic near to my heart – we’ve all heard people banging on about

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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